Chapter 125: Interlude

|Eleanor Vortigern - Heiress and Head of Vortigern Duchy|

"How is the situation, Karlee?"

I look at my friend and bodyguard while we ride through one of my territories. It has been a tough few years for the Vortigern Family. After my father died at the hands of the Cunningham Family, our family, which was already on the decline, started to decline even more.

Some of our vassals join the other factions and leave us alone to pick up the pieces of the aftermath of the war that the stupid king started without any warning or right casus belli against the Gipan Kingdom.

I am not angry at Cunningham for defeating my father. It was a war, and they were defending instead of attacking us. I blame that stupid king who dared to use monsters as his attack dog. Look where we are now. The mighty kingdom is now separated into multiple factions because of the monster that he tries to summon.